Wolseley Expedition Plaque

THE WOLSELEY EXPEDITION 1870

In August 1870, a force of British regulars and Canadian
militia comprising some 1,200 men commanded by Colonel
Garnet Wolseley, arrived in this area en route to the Red
River to establish Canadian authority within the present
province of Manitoba. The previous year the Hudson's Bay
Company had agreed to transfer control of its western ter-
ritories to Canada, and some local inhabitants, fearing loss
of their lands and interference with their mode of existence,
had set up a provisional government under Louis Riel to
press their claims on the Dominion. The expedition had
disembarked at Prince Arthur's Landing on Lake Superior and
travelling by land and water reached Fort Garry on August 24.

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